Bottle to Beaker: When?

[2OldSofty]

Just checking if I'm on the right track, or am I seriously slacking?
DS is 10 months + 2 days (!!) and still has milk feeds from the bottle, but wter and fruit juices from a feeder thing. I am struggling to get him to take a beaker/feeder, especially since he is a late teether and is just getting the first two top teeth through, and sometimes he must hurt himself and then won't continue.
Can I clarify:-

1. When should a baby hold their own bottle (with or without bottle handles)?
2. Guidance notes in some booklet said to get them off bottles by 12 months. Is that really achievable?
3. Which beakers feeder things have been the most successful in your opinion? Thanks for your help in anticipation!

I've only just managed to get Dd (17 months) to drink her milk from a beaker (with a spout) so panic ye not! She has held her beaker since she was about 11 months (although adeptly from 12 months). I posted a similar thread about getting her off the bottle so to speak, the general concensus seemed to be...when they're ready they'll do it. I insisted at 16 months and it took a couple of days battle but she eventually takes milk from a spouted beaker - although, to be honest, I don't really see a huge difference between this an a bottle! She still point blank refuses to drink from something like a doidy cup. Dd took ages to find a beaker she liked for milk and eventually she settled on teh Tommy Tippee Toddler cup, although I've cut the non- spill part out so she gets the milk quicker. However, I will say that she drinks nowhere near as much milk now as she did when using a bottle - that could just be her though. I'll stop whittering on now...HTH

My dd is 18 months. She uses a basic Tommy Tippee beaker (no valve) for water in the day time - has done since about 6 months old, but I can't get her to drink milk out of anything other than a bottle. She's even capable of drinking (messily) from a cup so long as it has handles but again, it's got to be a bottle for milk.

The beaker (in Supermarkets - £2 or £3) has been great though so maybe try him on one like that. Maybe you'll have more luck than I have had re. milk.

I really don't think it's a huge problem letting him have his bedtime bottle though.

my dd cut her teeth quite early - at 4 months. I switched her to beakers over the next couple of months & had chucked away the teats by 6 months - mainly because I was worried she might bite chunks out of the bottle teats with those razor sharp teeth! I found the avent soft spouts (white ones) the easiest for her to use & switched to the green spouts a few months later. They're a bit of a pain to clean - 3 parts, but don't seem to require much "suck" unlike anywayup cups etc. A bonus is they fit on existing avent bottles.

I think you just have to try out a few different ones - we didn't get on with the tomy magic spout ones, anywayup cups or a couple of others.

The holding the bottle herself bit came much much later btw ...... well past a year old, if I remember correctly...... whereas my cousin's dd was holding her own bottle by 6 months!

we did it with both ors at 11-12 months. fiddling around letting them play with it got us nowhere so we went cold turkey both times. With ds (now 3) it was hell, he cried and creid and it was a real battle of wills. But he has been like that with everything.
With dd (now 18 months)- she was just like"oh ok, if yiou insist I'll drink it from this then" not a lot of fuss at all really.